Toy vehicle



W. MOIR.

TOY VEHIC APPLICATION FILED DE 1919.

Patented Aug. 17,1920.

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TOY VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED 050.30. 1919.

1,350,232. Patented Aug. 17,1920.

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UNITEDFSTATEFS PAATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAMMOIR, or cnrcneo, ILLINOIS.

TOY VEHICLE.-

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WVILLIAM Mom, a citizenof the United States, residing at Chicago,

in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Vehicles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to toy vehicles and has for its object theprovision of a novel pedal operated drive mechanism therefor.

An important and more specific object is I the provision of a drivemechanism including pedal members connected by a lazy tongs 7construction with the crank shaft carrying the sprockets which transmitsthe motlve power to the driving axle of the vehicle.

Another object is the provision of a device of this character which willbe simple and 1nexpensive in manufacture, easy to operate,

which will be novel and attractive to a child,

and which will be a general improvement n the art.

With the above and other objects and advantages in View, the inventionconsists in the details of construction to be herelnafter more fullydescribed and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings inwhich- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a childs vehicle formed to embodymy invention,

Fig. 2 is a plan view, V Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of mydrive mechanism,

Fig. 1 is a sectional view therethrough on the line 4.l of Fig. 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the letter A designates thebody of the vehicle which may be formed'to simulate an automobile orother type of vehicle attract ve to the eye of a child, and the letter Bdesignates the dirigible or steering wheels. The letter C designates therear axle which carries the driving wheels D. u V g In carrying out myinvention I provlde a pair of plates 10, formed of metal, securedbeneath the body A at the desiredlocatlon between the front and rearwheels and each plate is provided with a longitudinal slot 11. Journaled through the plates 10 at one end thereof, is a shaft 12 whichhas its ends rovided with cranks 13 preferably exten'ing' Specificationof Letters Patent. Patented A 17, 1

Application filed December 30, 1919. Serial 110,348,285

construction, that is at the end pivoted to the plate, the other endmostlink is elongated 1 and angularly bent to provide a pedal 18 engageableby the foot of the operator. it will of course be understood that theconstruction is identically the same at both sides of the vehicle exceptthat the cranks 13 extend in opposite directions so that to operate thedevice it will be necessary to press the pedals 18 alternately.

In-the operationof the device it will be seen that when an operator isseated within a vehicle with his feet upon the pedals and presses thepedals alternately, the result will be the elongation and contraction ofthe lazy tongs construction at each side of the vehicle, the bolts 16riding within the slots 11 and the pitman 17 transmitting the motion tothe shaft 12. A suitable sprocket 19 is secured upon' the shaft 12 and achain 20 is trained about the sprockets 19 and the sprocket on the rearaxle C whereby the motion will be transmitted to the rear axle C andwheels D.

From the foregoing description and a study of the drawings it will beapparent that I have thus provided a simple drive mechanism which willbe unique and which will be particularly attractive to the eye of achildwhile being highly efiicient in proor the scope of the subjoinedclaims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: I

1. In a toy vehicle including a body, front wheels therefor, a rear axleand wheels thereon, a drive mechanism comprising a pair of platessecured beneath the body and having longitudinal slots, a crank shaftjournaled through said plates and formed with crank portions, a chainand'sprocket connection between said crank shaft and the rear axle, alazy tongs disposed against each plate and having one forward linkpivoted thereon and V the other forward link provided with a pedal,means connecting the rear ends of each of the lazy tongs, saidconnecting means being slidable Within said slot, and a pitrnanconnectedwith said slidable connection and with the adjacent crank portion of thecrank shaft. e r

2. In a toy vehicle includinga body, front Wheels therefor, a rear axle,and Wheels car-- ried thereby, drive mechanism comprising a pair ofplates secured Within said body and having longitudinal slots, acounter-shaft journaled through said plate, connecting means betweensaid counter shaft and rear axle whereby to impart rotary movement of.the former topthe latter, crank portions formed on said counter-shaft, alazy tongs associated with each plate andhaving one forward linkthereofpivoted upon the plate and the other forward link prolon ed .for-

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM MOIR.

"2O Wardly and terminating in a a'bolt connecting the rearmo'stend'links of each

